component which has dried out the atmosphere, really cleared things out. even low clouds backing off the coast today. by lunchtime our temperatures will warm up close to 60. by noon, topping out upper 50s to low 60s, right around mid-afternoon. we'll see the offshore winds picking up in the hills heading into tomorrow. plus, 70s in the seven-day forecast in february. we'll talk about that. coming up in a few minutes. >> thank you very much, rob. we continue to follow a developing story out of southern california where the intense manhunt for a lapd officer continues this morning. 33-year-old christopher dorner is suspected of killing people in a revenge rampage. he blames for ending his career as an officer. this is believed to be dorner the day after he started the deadly rampage. you can see a match who matches

dorner's description going back and forth from a pickup truck to the dumpster. it's behind the platinum auto sports store in national city, about 12 miles south of san diego. a store employee found a magazine full of bullets, a belt and they were turned over to the police department where officers quickly connected them to dorner. he's accused of killing a university police officer and his fiancee, the daughter of a retired l.a. police captain last sunday, then a riverside police officer on thursday. dorner published an online manifesto declaring war on the people who he said got him fired from the force back in 2008. they reopened the case to go over the allegations made by dorner against the department during his disciplinary meeting. the mayor of los angeles is vowing to use all available resources to find dorner. >> turn yourself in, because we will find you. you've disgraced the public

safety, the police profession. turn yourself in. >> that will be the best resolution for this whole thing right now. no one else has to be shot. no one else has to be injured. no one else has to die. >> los angeles police say they have more than 50 officers and their families in protective custody right now, and will continue to do so until they find dorner. now, if you recall police opened fire on two women in a truck early thursday, thinking dorner was inside. los angeles police chief charlie beck met with the two to apologize to them. and promised them a new truck. they may want more than that, though, as their lawyer says he is not ruling out a lawsuit. the women, a 71-year-old and 47-year-old daughter were delivering newspapers. the mother was shot twice in the back and the daughter was hit by broken glass. we'll bring you the latest developments on the search for dorner, both on-air and online. just go to the website

nbcbayarea.com and search manhunt. as far as police are searching for a gunman after a deadly shooting overnight. it happened in the area of hayes and webster streets just after 2:00 this morning. police say when officers arrived, they found a man suffering from a gunshot wound. he died at the scene. as of now, there's no known motive for the killing. police are trying to figure out what caused a deadly crash between a bicyclist and a cement truck right across from at&t park. police say a woman's bike somehow became tangled under the wheels of the truck. she was dragged several feet. witnesses say the woman and truck were going the same direction on king street when they collided. it happened just as thousands of people were gathering across the street at the ballpark for giants fanfest yesterday afternoon. a police officer who was there for fanfest responded immediately by giving the victim cpr. >> the driver is cooperating with police. it isn't known if alcohol or drugs is playing a factor at this point. but it is under investigation,

and he is cooperating with police. >> the woman later died at the hospital. police say she is a san francisco resident in her mid-40s. this morning an alert neighbor is being credited with helping saving the lives of a family whose house went up in flames in san pablo. firefighters say a grill that was left unattended near the garage caught fire yesterday afternoon. those flames quickly sfred to the rest of the house on 15th street near rivers street. a neighbor took this video with his iphone. he was also the first to smell smoke coming from the garage, and warped the homeowner. >> i started knocking on the door right away. the neighbor said, hello, hello. finally somebody came out and i said, hey, your house is on fire. he goes, oh, my god. he starts coming out and get the hose and start throwing water. >> the homeowner did try to fight back the flames just with a garden hose as he waited for firefighters to arrive. no one was hurt. and fire officials estimate the damage to be about $90,000. a 41-year-old man is behind

bars this morning accused of taking a man hostage at a fast-food restaurant. it happened early yesterday morning at the jack in the box in pleasant hill. investigators say samuel guerrero threatened an employee with a knife and then tried to rob the business taking one employee hostage. in the end, no one was hurt. this morning, palo alto police are searching for a suspect wanted for robbing a man at gunpoint. it happened in an apartment complex on hanland drive yesterday morning. police say the suspect approached the victim, a man in his 40s, pointed a gun at him and demanded his wallet. the man then ran away. the suspect is a thin black male in his late 20s, early 30s, 5'8". he was wearing a gray hooded track suit at the time of the robbery. investigators are trying to figure out if this man is connected with a robbery late

last month about two miles away. new this morning, the police are warning people to be on the lookout for burglars in san mateo. there's been a spike in the home burglaries in recent weeks. most of the break-ins are taking place during the day, on week days, and are targeting unoccupied homes. police say the thieves first knock on the door to see if anyone's home before breaking in. they say a charcoal color acura and dark-colored minivan was spotted near a few of the burglaries. much more ahead on "today in the bay." the measure one bay area school is taking to protect itself from gunmen on campus. thousands flood the field at at&t park for giants fanfest. what fans have to say. there is no mass-produced human. every signature is unique, and every fingerprint unrepeatable. at sleep number, we recognize the incredible diversity of human beings, and know that up there with your social security number and your phone number is another important number.

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7:10 is the time. it is sunday morning. the golden gate bridge in the

background. rob mayeda will be here in about ten minutes for your forecast. schools across the country look at their security measures in the wake of the school shooting. the protectors are basically two strong metal brackets and a bar that fits into the slots making it hard for anyone trying to open the door. they asked for administrators at the home depot to help with the cost. they donated both the materials and the time. >> it was an easy decision to come out and help when they asked. >> we talked about how we hope we never have to use these bars. but we like having them here because we know it's one more precaution that we have in case of an emergency. >> other schools across the bay area and the country have stepped up security measures in similar ways as well. still ahead on "today in the bay," coming up, a first for nasa's curiosity rover, the sample it just took and what it could reveal about the red planet.

we've got a chilly start to the morning so far. there's a gorgeous view looking off to the east around mount diablo this morning. 20s and 30s around the bay this morning.

welcome back to the broadcast. i want to thank you norbert lee for giving us beautiful sun rise shots over san francisco bay this morning. chilly start. rob will be here in a couple minutes to tell you how the day and the rest of the week is going to turn out. nearly 50,000 people flooded the field at at&t park for the annual giantsfest today. it was a chance to show their support for the team before the start of the 2013 season. the players say they appreciate the turnout. >> thank you for your unwavering support. you guys make it fun for us. you come out every day, after

getting back from a long road trip and you've got 40,000-plus screaming fans. >> giant party. everyone's friends. everybody's out here to have a good time and meet the players and hang out. >> the giants have been special to their fans. i really appreciated their special support. >> the world champion giants hit the road for spring training this week. look for our reports from scottsdale starting tomorrow morning. a series of benefit concerts have raised more than $75,000 for injured giants fan brian stowe. that money was raised at a concert in napa, thanks to tim flannery, who performed with his band lunatic fringe. stowe suffered setbacks, including being hospitalized for a blood clot. for the first time, nasa's

curiosity rover has drilled into a rock on mars. the robot sent back this photo of the drilled hole. it's a 2 1/2-inch deep hole. scientists believe the rock may hold evidence of a long-lost wet environment on the red planet. it could take days or weeks to get the results back from curiosity's lap. keep in mind, mars is 62 million miles from earth. there was a successful test flight of boeing's problematic dreamliner this weekend. the plane flew about 1,100 miles, taking off and landing at boeing field in seattle. now, that's good news for silicon valley as those in the aircraft scheduled to connect san jose and tokyo. until they're flying again, the airport is out more than $200,000 a day in lost revenues. yesterday was the first time the faa has allowed any 787 to fly, since a couple of serious battery problems last month. in one case, a battery caught fire shortly after landing in

boston. the dreamliner is the first commercial airliner to rely heavily on lithium ion batteries, the same kind used in cell phones. the historic blizzard that pounded the east coast is now blamed for five deaths, including an 11-year-old boy in boston. that boy died of carbon monoxide poisoning while trying to keep warm inside a running car. at least 400,000 people are in the dark this morning as crews brave brutal conditions trying to clear roads and sidewalks. the storm dumped as much as three feet of snow in two days. some schools are canceling classes tomorrow and there's still no word on when people will get their power again. rob, you're just telling me a moment ago that freezing rain has followed all that snow. that can't make for a good mix. >> you're starting to see a little bit of that approaching from the great lakes right now, as the dry day, clear day for

most of the northeast. good news at the airports, with the faa website, boston's logan airport and the new york area airports are back open for business this morning. so hopefully flights will get back on schedule. by the way, highs in boston and hartford, just in case you're curious, exactly what we're seeing outside right now. it gives you a perspective on the highs on the east coast today and mid-30s. mid-30s right now in san jose. upper 20s in parts of the north bay. if there was any moisture or dew overnight, you may be waking up to patchy frost. but the air is quite dry, so you may not be seeing too much of that. breezy in the hill top areas. upper 50s to low 60s beginning of the week, second half they really start to climb on up. radar dry. unfortunately i think it's going to stay that way for quite some time, probably beyond the next seven days, as high pressure

builds in, clearing out our skies. the high off to the west and clockwise flow around it, winds out of the north, as the high builds back to the west coast. that's going to tighten up the pressure gradient. this dry pattern, blocking pattern for the west coast is going to keep the rain off to the north. and sunny, warmer days. especially thursday and friday. i think that's when most of the bay area will see temperatures in the mid-60s and near 70 next weekend. hour by rain, with the rain futurecast, not much out there. just a few high clouds dropping by from north to south during the day. as we head into tomorrow morning, notice really no fog. just some high clouds at time and breezy conditions around the hills. chilly start to the morning. 60 later on this afternoon, closer to san jose, should see low 60s around the tri-valley with mostly sunny skies. a little breezy in the hills by around sundown tonight. san francisco low 60s. not much change temperaturewise

at least during the afternoons. if the winds stay gusty at times into monday morning, that may keep the morning temperatures tomorrow morning not quite as cold. but the trend for the second half of the week, not only dry, but mild. 70s around morgan hills, pleasanton toward the end of the week. next weekend, we'll get cooling. clouds. but that high, not giving up any ground. it looks like the rain is going to stay north of the oregon border as we head into next weekend. this is normally the wettest time of the year for northern california. >> you said our temperature now is similar to what the high is going to be in new england? >> in boston. >> i think if i call my friends there, and tell them it's not going to make them feel any better. that's why we live here. rob, thank you very much. a pet insurance company gives out an award each year for the most unusual claims. it goes to a 6-month-old kitten in oakland.

natasha accidently ended up in a washing machine. she survived an entire cycle in the washer and walked away with only hypothermia and very clean smelling fur. >> my roommate was doing laundry. and he came in here and he dropped off some clothes. and he left the lid open. and she must have wandered in, jumped in. and he came back and dropped off more clothes and didn't notice that she jumped in there. >> the insurance company uses the hambone award as a way to educate the public about accidents that might happen to your pets. much more ahead on "today in the bay," coming up, it wasn't what they expected. >> it was a guy treading water a mile and a half from the bridge. it takes a while for your head to wrap around that, because you're thinking, that's something that's not supposed to be there. >> a man treading water in the

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welcome back to the broadcast, everyone. 7:23 is the time. if you've been up and out this morning, maybe to get the newspaper, you noticed it it's pretty chilly out there. thanks for coming back indoors and spending some of your morning hours with us. you're looking live outside at the golden gate bridge. a mile west of there is where our next story takes place. early in the morning october 31st last year, a crew change aboard the tugboat guard had just taken place. the captain said he barely had his second cup of coffee in him when he noticed a dark shape in the water 150 yards away. he almost didn't investigate it. it's a good thing he did, because what happened next is this morning's "bay area proud." even on a morning when the weather is calm, and the water is flat, there is no such thing as an ordinary day on san francisco bay.

at least not when that day is spent aboard a tugboat. captain perry spent enough years at the wheel to know that. >> some jobs can be a real challenge. but that's what keeps you awake. you know, it's pretty cool. >> reporter: still, one day last fall, cool quickly gave way to something else entirely. the tug's job that morning was to escort a con caner ship into san francisco bay. with chief matting on deck, the guard had just passed under the golden gate bridge. the boat was a mile and a half out to sea when overton spotted something floating in the water. >> log, seal, you know, crab louie. you're always seeing something in the water out here. >> reporter: at first he kept his course. kept to the boat's schedule. but when the container ship radioed it was running 45 miles

late, offerton turned around. >> i said, let's go check this out. we get up to it and it's a guy. a guy treading water a mile and a half away from the bridge. and it takes a little while for your head to wrap around that, because you're thinking, that's something that's not supposed to be there. >> reporter: something, someone, the crew clearly needed to get out of the water quickly. a life ring was tossed. but the man in the water didn't even reach for it. >> no response at all. he's just staring at us, which is really spooky. there was no emotion on the guy's face, nothing. he's just treading water, barely keeping afloat. >> the victim was in the water over this way. >> reporter: keith matting decided someone was going to have to go in, and volunteered himself for the job. matting lowered a ladder over the edge, went below deck and got ready. >> grabbed the handle. out it comes. >> reporter: wearing his emergency suit. matting jumped into the dark, cold pacific. >> if i had to get in his space

and say, okay, now, you're going to have to do this for me, one foot up that ladder at a time, slowly got him up the ladder. >> reporter: they saved the man's life. people who spend their lives on the water know help isn't always close by. it's why the crew of the guard every month.n overboard drills so that when it's not practiced, they are perfect. >> they did a really fine job. we're proud of them. >> now, when they got the man onboard, he was in such a state he couldn't even talk. the crew then handed him over to the coast guard. today they have no idea who he was or what he was doing in the waters. just ahead on "today in the bay," the amateur video claiming to show air strike in syria. we're not asking anything out of the ordinary. just ask for justice. >> actor jamie foxx demands jugs tin for trayvon martin's death.

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a live look outside along the embarcadero in san francisco. a chilly start to this sunday morning. thanks for making us part of your sunday morning. i'm garvin thomas. rob mayeda is the meteorologist to my right and he's got at information about where the temperatures go from here. >> now that the sun is up, we'll go up in terms of the numbers. right now, it's cold. 34 san jose. sunnyvale, 33. san francisco the lone spot in the 40s right now. we've got clear skies. we'll see high clouds at times, dropping in from the north during the afternoon. and without any clouds, at least by day, that's going to allow the day tome temperatures to warm up. the lack of clouds overnight allow our temperatures to bottom out over the morning. the warm-up approaching around

1:00. already low 60s in the north bay as the north winds start to develop. that's going to make the air dry out and warm up as it heads into the north bay valleys this afternoon. towards the evening, dropping back into the 50s. the seven-day forecast continues to look unusually dry and quite warm. second half of the week could get close to 70. the complete forecast in just a few minutes. >> we've got a little rain. but certainly not enough to catch us up to where we need to be. another week of dry temperatures? >> the big december that's really holding us below average. >> thank you very much. new video this morning of a possible air strike in syria. this amateur video posted online appears to show a plane flying over a town in the hama province yesterday and dropping bombs. white smoke can also be seen rising from the town as fighting between government and opposition forces continues across the country. new this morning, a man is

fighting for his life and three other people are recovering after a shooting on bourbon street during mardi gras. thousands of people packed the french quarter in unless last night, when the shots rang ot. two men and two women were shot after a fight. the man who is in critical condition this morning was shot in the stomach, upper thigh and pelvis. police are still searching for three suspects. demanding justice, actor jamie foxx and hundreds of supporters joined the parents of trayvon martin in florida this weekend to remember the teenager shot to death nearly one year ago. nbc's betty yu has the story. >> reporter: sporting his favorite color and chanting his name, trayvon martin's parents led hundreds of supporters in a march for peace in honor of their late son. >> that's a beautiful feeling just to know that all of these people are out here in remembrance of trayvon. >> the purpose of our walk is to

bring awareness and let people know you have a right to walk in peace. you have a right to not be followed. >> reporter: a year ago this month, the unarmed teen was shot and killed by george zimmerman who will stand trial for second-degree murder in june. he claims he shot martin in self-defense. >> the controversial matter caught the attention of actor jamie foxx who wore a trayvon martin t-shirt to the march. >> when i first saw this story, i couldn't get over it. >> reporter: foxx, who has an 18-year-old daughter, said he was especially touched by the tragedy. >> i'm absolutely committed to all of you out there who have young kids, i hope you never have to go through anything like this. >> reporter: the star said he hopes to use his voice to keep trayvon's memory and message alive. >> you know how the press goes, it will be a hot story at one point, it will be the thing to go to and all of a sudden they try to forget about it. i don't want anybody to forget about this. and the thing is, we're not asking anything out.

ordinary. we're just asking for justice. >> reporter: the martin family turned emotional after fox took the stage. >> we really appreciate you here. and you've got a family here in miami. >> reporter: the actor closed out the rally with a song dedicated to the late teen. ♪ we love you, trayvon. >> that was nbc's betty yu reporting. foxx said trayvon is one teenager he will never forget. rick perry is expected to be in the bay today. the governor plans to tell people texas is better for business, because there's no income tax, and more lenient labor and environmental laws. earlier this week, texas launched a radio ad campaign aimed at luring california businesses. we continue to follow a developing story out of southern california where the intense manhunt for a former lapd officer continues this morning. 33-year-old christopher dorner is suspected of killing three

people and injuring two others, so far, in a revenge-fueled rampage. targeting officials he blamed for ending his career as an officer. nbc news has obtained this surveillance video of what is believed to be dorner the day after police say he started the deadly rampage. you can see a man who matches dorner's description going back and forth from a pickup truck to a dumpster. that dumpster is behind the platinum auto sports stort in nashville city, about 12 miles south of san diego. a store employee found a magazine full of bullets, a military style belt and camouflage helmet hidden under boxes in the dumpster. the items were turned over to the police department where officers quickly connected them to dorner. he's accused of killing a university security officer and his fiancee, the daughter of a retired l.a. police captain last sunday, then a riverside police officer on tuesday. dorner published an online manifesto declaring war on the people he believes are

responsible for getting him fired from the force back in 2008. yesterday los angeles police reopened the case to go over allegations dorner made against the department during his disciplinary hearing. the mayor of los angeles is vowing to use all available resources to find dorner. >> turn yourself in. because we will find you. you have disgraced the public safety, the police profession. turn yourself in. >> that will be the best resolution for this whole thing right now. no one else has to be shot. no one else has to be injured. no one else has to die. >> los angeles police say they have more than 50 officers and their families under protective custody right now and will continue to do so until they find dorner. new this morning, san francisco police are searching for a gunman after a deadly shooting overnight. the shooting happened in the area of hayes and webster streets just after 2:00 this morning. when officers arrived, they found a man suffering from a gunshot wound. he died at the scene.

as of now, there is no motive for the killing. this morning, an alert neighbor is being credited with helping to save the lives of a family whose house went up in flames in san pablo. firefighters say a grill left unattended near the garage caught fire yesterday afternoon. those flames quickly spread to the rest of the house on 15th street near rivers street. a neighbor took this video with his iphone. he was the first one who smelled the smoke coming from the garage and he was the one who warned the homeowner. >> i started knocking on the door right away. the neighbor said, hello, hello. i said, hey, your house is on fire. he said, oh, my god. and he started coming out and he got the hose and started throwing water. >> the homeowner tried to fight back the flames with a garden hose as he waited for firefighters to arrive. no one was hurt. fire officials estimate the damage to be about $90,000. the city of berkeley announced this week they are almost double the number of reported rapes last year compared to the year before. berkeley police say many of the

39 reported rapes reported in 2012 happened in neighborhoods around the berkeley campus. in 2011, there were 20 reported rapes in berkeley. it's not clear whether the increase in 2012 is the actual number of rise of rapes or if more victims feel comfortable reporting them. >> the cases are getting paid more and more attention. required to have this agitation al courses. so more open to reporting this kind of thing. >> 95% of the numbers, yeah, that's surprising. i didn't know it was getting that bad, quickly. >> according to a police report, about half the rapes reported in berkeley involved drugs and alcohol. in almost all the cases, the victim knew their accused attacker. more ahead on "today in the bay." the sharks looking to win one at home before kicking off a two-week road trip. we'll show you how they did. ♪

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7:40 is the time. you're looking at downtown san jose and the shark tank in the foreground. they're cooling off a bit. they lost to the coyotes 1-0 in a shootout last night at the tank. the sharks are winless in their last four games and dropped to 7-2-2 on the season. they'll try to bounce back on the road starting tomorrow night against the columbus blue jackets. the night wasn't much better for the warriors, as they looked to break a three-game losing streak on the road in dallas. it didn't happen. as golden gate was blown out, losing to the mavericks 116-91. the houston rockets at home on tuesday. a week-long break for the all-star game. the at&t pebble beach pro am wraps up today. one of the am tours to make the cut, jim harbaugh. the defending champ phil

mickelson took a spill yesterday. he was looking for his wayward tee shot. he would end up triple bogeying the hole to finish at 1 under par. that's 11 strikes behind brent sunseticer and james pond. more ahead on "today in the bay." an investigator uncovers why the same procedures have different price tags at area hospitals. why the bill you get is unlikely what you'll pay.

welcome back to the broadcast. 7:44 is the time. you're looking at a picture of mount tam in the north bay. clear skies above. cool temperatures around the bay area. rob will be here in a couple of minutes for the full forecast. under current california law, anyone can get a list of prices for hospital services showing what it costs for an emergency visit, for instance. it's called the payer's bill of

rights and intended to give you information about the cost of health care. but it was discovered a wildly inaccurate and broken system, one that makes it almost impossible for you to really know how much you're going to pay for a visit to the hospital. >> reporter: in a perfect world, health experts say, finding and getting the best deal at the hospital should be like going to buy a car. >> you end up pay a bargaining between your skills as a consumer and car dealer skill. >> reporter: try doing that at any bay area hospital and you'll find a wide variation in prices, and a bill that isn't close to the one you were originally quoted. >> you're going to the hospital for something important, you don't know how they price it or what it costs. how do you end up working out the right price for you? >> reporter: david lansky ought to know. he's with a group investigating major companies with 3 million california employees. >> in california, the system

does not work. flat out. you have almost no information about the actual prices paid for medical services. >> i would never go buy a car without knowing, you know, what everything's going to cost up front. >> reporter: doris schwartz works in the medical field. she's a clinical psychologist. and she knows firsthand the nightmare of trying to negotiate california's health care pricing system. >> it's quite an adventure trying to, first of all, find a specialist who does the procedure, but then ascertaining the costs. >> reporter: doctors diagnosed her with a disease that stems from hodgkin's lymphoma that she fought three decades ago. now she needs surgery she has to pay for. that's why she's now trying to find the best value. >> we don't know where the costs will go. there will be cost overruns. no one will quote us. >> reporter: those answers are supposed to be easily found under the california's payers' bill of rights.

it asks hospitals to post the cost of their procedures online, so anyone can shop and compare. it tracks how much hospitals charge for everything from gauze to medication to surgery. it also lists average estimates of what an uninsured patient would pay. using that data from the office of health planning and development, we compiled a list of those prices for these procedures at 44 different medical centers in the bay area. we found wide variations in the prices or charges for common procedures as reported by the hospitals. everything from a chest x-ray where the most expensive price is 19 1/2 times higher than the cheapest price. to a level four emergency room visit, where the most expensive hospital charges nearly $7,000 more than the least expensive. to a diagnostic colonoscopy where the most expensive price is listed as $5,000 higher than

the average of all the other hospitals reporting prices in the bay area. >> it does not mean that a high-priced hospital is providing better services. >> reporter: dr. rene shaw serves as an emergency room physician and researcher at the university of california san francisco. >> i think some people might be surprised to know there isn't any regulation of what hospitals charge, that hospitals basically are free to charge whatever they want based on what they feel like their costs are. >> reporter: the more we dug into the hospital pricing structure, the more we discovered that it's much like buying a car. in that people rarely pay the sticker price. >> we all know that price has nothing to do with what you're actually going to end up paying. >> reporter: while these figures might give you a rough idea of what one hospital tells the state they might charge for a procedure, in the end, there's no way to truly know ahead of time what a patient will actually pay. >> it's almost impossible as a consumer. >> reporter: mary beth shannon, market and policy monitor director for california's health care foundation, says that

because insurance companies negotiate these fees with hospitals, published prices rarely apply to a single customer. >> i think it is because this has not been very transparent. there hasn't been a lot of visibility about what the different rates are. and the negotiated rates, not just the gross charges. it's hard to determine what you're going to pay. >> that was stephen stock reporting. experts say if you really want to know what you're expect to pay, you'll have to ask your insurance provider. if you have a tip for our investigative unit, give us a call at 888-996-tips, or send us an e-mail to theunit@nbc nbc. not your abc coverage story. the man who turned album art into his passion. the morning still looking fairly chilly outside. here's one place to get away from the 30s. embarcadero, 42 degrees. we'll have your forecast when we come right back.

welcome back. good sunday morning to you. a view from oakland looking back towards san francisco. you can see the mirror-like reflection across the water. not much wind right now. clear skies. but the winds will pick up later on today. that's one of the changes we'll see. the sun will stick around all day, and that's a good thing, because we have chilly temperatures outside right now. mostly 30s around the bay area. 37 degrees in oakland. 30 in livermore. and look at the numbers in the north bay. and down towards fairfield, 20s this morning. clear, dry air out there. lack of winds and lack of cloud cover allowing the temperatures to bottom out. 42 in san francisco. we should see these numbers all into the 50s around lunchtime. again, the wind, not much of a factor down close to sea level. but in the hilltops we see the winds pick up out of the north and offshore wind pattern will lead to the temperatures climbing up, especially as we pass the middle part of the week. mid-50s for highs in the hills.

the winds should stay up overnight which will hopefully keep our overnight temperatures tonight into monday morning not as cold as what we're seeing outside right now. the radar is obviously looking pretty lonely right now. you don't have any rain or snow across the northern bay of california. nothing in the way of clouds. this is what happens when you have a big ridge of high pressure which sets up across the west coast. it's a blocking pattern that takes the storm track, puts the brakes on the storms trying to come through it. and sends most of the energy up and over into canada, and away from northern california. so this high is going to strengthen and actually build back towards the west coast for the middle part of the week. right now, on the east flank of this high, we're still seeing north winds at times. as the high builds back to the coast, we'll see the temperatures climbing up, especially thursday to friday. maybe close to 70. hour by hour, you can see the high clouds that go zipping by from north to south. not much in the way of low clouds heading into tomorrow morning. the temperatures during the day today, despite the chilly start,

not too bad. 60 in san jose. a tad breezy at times. if you're going to be around mount diablo or the foothills around the east bay, and east bay hills. 58 san francisco. and 63 around santa rosa. temperatures not changing much. next couple of days. but as we pass the middle part of the week, this is where we'll see the change. thursday and friday last week had the chilly showers and low snow levels. and this thursday and friday, coinciding with valentine's day and presidents day weekend, it looks warm. upper 60s to near 70. friday should be the warmest day next weekend. no rain drops with those clouds. that storm track is going to stay to the north. some models show 10 to 14 days of dry weather. we need the rain and snow. but nice for outdoor plans. >> thank you very much, rob. most of us remember vinyl. but many have never used it. we're talking about record players. as wonderful as the sound of a

record is, the story is not what's on the record, it's what the record comes in. we see a bay area man spreading his love of album art. >> when rock and roll was at its inception in the mid-'50s, we just loved the music. >> reporter: like so many bitten by the rock and roll bug, eric christiansen collected records as a kid. >> i have 15,000 45s. >> reporter: along the way he realized he didn't just own thousands of records, he owned thousands of pieces of art. >> now i collect for the cover. >> reporter: he discovered each album cover told a story. each with a unique work of a photographer, or artist. >> warhol had done a lot of covers. i just thought, hey, at a used record store, you can get a warhol print for under $10.

>> reporter: the covers document moments in title, like the beatles lonely harts album, and a nude 11-year-old girl shot by san francisco photographer bob sideamin. >> there was a competition as to who could do the most rououtrags cover. >> reporter: he turned it into a documentary film. he interviewed dozens of musicians and artists like yoko ono who once used john lennon's bloody glasses for an album cover. >> this was her expression of something tragic that happened in her life. >> reporter: christiansen tells the story of michael rios whose art graced 40 million copies of carlos santana's supernatural album. >> how many people are buying santana's music, you know. and a few albums i've done with him already are getting to see a

taste of my art. >> reporter: christiansen's film mourns the passing of the record and potential as a canvas for art. >> the cd era reduced the size of the artwork and i think the impact of it. but the digital download, it's something on an iphone. >> reporter: cover story is currently showing around the bay area. shining a nostalgic light on a medium that looks as unique as it sounded. today marks the first day of the lunar new year. a traditional performance in northern china overnight, look at that. an artist threw hot iron on a cold brick gate, causing sparks to burst into the night sky like fireworks. chinese officials say it's been a tradition for over 500 years. according to the zodiac, this is the year of the snake. that does look wild. great. thanks so much for making us part of your morning. we'll have more local news for

you tonight at 5:00, 6:00 and 11:00, and all day long at nbcbayarea.com. go out and have a great day.

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fell in parts of connecticut, rhode island, and massachusetts. cutting power and downing trees. electrical power remains out in nearly 350,000 homes whereas the area this morning. so a lot of cleanup to do there. meanwhile, the political climate has our attention here in washington as the president prepares to deliver his state of the union address tuesday night. as we begins a second term, we're being told he will return to his primary message of how to restore economic growth. we'll talk to both sides this morning. majority leader eric cantor and assistant democratic leader in the senate dick durbin. i want to welcome you back to "meet the press." >> pleasure, david. thank you. >> there are so many areas that are contentious right now, and chief among them is the sequester word. this dirty word in washington, that means automatic spending cuts. it could begin in a matter of weeks with $85 billion in automatic cuts. do you really want this as a republican lea